Tag: dikw_pyramid

Here are four seemingly unrelated, apparently ‘random’ subjects which we intend to tie up in a neat little package:

The United States Government’s shutdown

A new app for the iPhone

A fantastic experience at a Project Management Workshop

Hybrid cars and college students

Right. Yeah, sure. Nobody could pull that all together. Well, WE can. EarthPM can do that for you. Just wait and see. We’re that good.

First of all, let’s start with the US Government. Part of the US Government is the Department of Energy and its Argonne National Labs. We’re proud to be working with Argonne on ECOCAR2. We sure hope that the Government shutdown does not end the efforts of Argonne. ECOCAR is an amazing collaboration as you will see from our puppet below.

Wait. Puppet? Did he say puppet? What’s that about? Well, that brings us to the second bullet, a new app for the iPhone. Check out this link (click here to learn about Shadow Puppet). This clever application helps anyone quickly and easily narrate a photo-laden story to convey an idea or perhaps a project lesson with amazing ease and an without anyone else needing the app to play the story you just wrote. Stories are very important to project managers. Which brings us to the next piece of our eclectic package.

We just finished a tremendous workshop at ECOCAR2’s “Fall Workshop” in which we were asked to help the students and advisors in this 15-university program with transitions between project managers. Project managers who are college students, competing to create a new hybrid vehicle from a General Motors-donated 2013 Chevy Malibu. Stories featured heavily in our training – the concept that stories help promote data into information into knowledge and finally into wisdom. This concept (called the DIKW Pyramid) is even featured in the 5th Edition PMBOK(R) Guide. So our training for ECOCAR2 seemed to take. And during that training, we learned about this brand new app – Shadow Puppet. So we’ll be sharing this with our ECOCAR2 students.